Damping device for a gas turbine, gas turbine and method for damping thermoacoustic oscillations

ABSTRACT

A damping device for a gas turbine has at least one Helmholtz resonator and at least one duct, wherein the Helmholtz resonator has a resonator housing and at least one resonator neck pipe and the resonator housing encloses a resonance volume of the Helmholtz resonator, into which volume acoustic vibrations can be injected by means of the resonator neck pipe. The damping device enables a particularly effective damping of thermo-acoustic vibrations. For this purpose, the duct is formed with a duct jacket and at least one outlet opening. Acoustic vibrations of a fluid stream flowing through a burner plenum and a combustion chamber can be injected into the outlet opening. A cooling fluid can be applied to the duct and the at least one resonator neck pipe opens on the hot-gas side into such a duct upstream of the at least one outlet opening.

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is the US National Stage of International ApplicationNo. PCT/EP2014/053921 filed Feb. 28, 2014, and claims the benefitthereof. The International Application claims the benefit of EuropeanApplication No. EP13157106 filed Feb. 28, 2013. All of the applicationsare incorporated by reference herein in their entirety.

FIELD OF INVENTION

The invention relates to a damping device for a gas turbine with atleast one Helmholtz resonator and at least one duct with duct jacketing.The Helmholtz resonator comprises a resonator housing and at least oneresonator neck tube, wherein the resonator housing encloses a resonancevolume of the Helmholtz resonator into which acoustic oscillations maybe injected by means of the resonator neck tube. The duct comprises atleast one outlet orifice. The invention also relates to a gas turbinehaving at least one combustion chamber and at least one such dampingdevice and to a method for damping thermoacoustic oscillations

BACKGROUND OF INVENTION

In the simplest case, a gas turbine comprises a compressor, a combustionchamber and a turbine. Aspirated air is compressed in the compressor andthen admixed with a fuel. In the combustion chamber the mixture iscombusted, resulting in a hot working gas stream which is fed to theturbine. The latter extracts energy from the hot working gas andconverts it into mechanical energy.

In the combustion chamber interaction may arise between acousticoscillations and fluctuations in heat release, which may amplify oneanother. Such thermoacoustic oscillations, which arise in particular inthe combustion chamber of the gas turbine, may lead to considerabledamage to the components during operation of the gas turbine and forceshutdown of the installation.

To reduce thermoacoustic oscillations, therefore, in the prior artHelmholtz resonators are for example used for oscillation damping whicheffectively damp the oscillation amplitude within a given frequencyband.

To prevent hot gas from being drawn into the Helmholtz resonator,purging air is introduced into the resonator neck in the oppositedirection from that in which hot gas is drawn in.

EP 0 597 138 A1 discloses a gas turbine combustion chamber. Helmholtzresonators purged with purging air are arranged in the region of theburners. The Helmholtz resonators each comprise a resonator housing,which encloses the resonance volume, and a damping pipe, which may alsobe denoted a resonator neck tube or resonator neck. The damping pipeconnects the resonance volume with the surrounding environment, suchthat acoustic oscillations can be injected into the resonance volume. Afeed pipe introducing purging air leads into the resonator housing, suchthat the purging air is introduced into the resonance volume and purgesthe damping pipe in the opposite direction from that in which hot gas isdrawn in.

A disadvantage of this method is that the performance of the Helmholtzresonator reduces as the velocity of the purging air in the damping pipeincreases. The compressor air used for purging is also not available ascombustion air, which has a disadvantageous effect on the emissionvalues achieved by the gas turbine.

SUMMARY OF INVENTION

An object of the invention is to provide a damping device of theabove-stated type and a gas turbine with such a damping device whichallows particularly effective damping of thermoacoustic oscillations.

This object is achieved according to the invention in a damping deviceof the above-stated type in that acoustic oscillations of a fluid streamflowing through a burner plenum and a combustion chamber may be injectedinto the outlet orifice of the duct and the duct may be supplied with acooling fluid, wherein the at least one resonator neck tube leads intosuch a duct on the hot gas side upstream of the at least one outletorifice.

According to aspects of the invention, the resonator neck tube of theHelmholtz resonator is thus no longer purged, but rather the outlet ofthe resonator neck tube on the hot gas side leads into a duct suppliedwith cooling fluid. In this way, the temperature of the mediumtransmitting the acoustic waves in the mouth area of the resonator necktube is lowered relative to the temperatures which prevail in thecombustion chamber or the burner plenum of the gas turbine. The mouth ofthe resonator neck tube and the source producing hot, thermoacousticoscillations are thus always divided by a portion of the duct which iscooled by means of cooling fluid. Only the at least one outlet orificeof the duct may be exposed to the drawing in of hot gas. For example,the duct may be supplied with cooling fluid in such a way that it ispurged with purging air in the opposite direction from the direction inwhich hot gas is drawn in. The duct may however also be cooled in otherways. The only essential thing here is that the duct is supplied withcooling fluid in such a way that the transmission medium for theacoustic oscillations, located inside the duct, is cooled between theoutlet orifice and the mouth of the resonator neck tube. For thepurposes of the present invention, with regard to the duct “upstream of”denotes a direction which points from the outlet orifice into the ductand in the direction of the mouth of the resonator neck tubes.

According to aspects of the invention, the velocity of purging airthrough the hot gas-side outlet of the resonator neck tubes may beselected to be significantly lower or the purging air through theresonator neck tube may be dispensed with completely, since the velocityof the acoustic fluctuations in the resonator neck tubes is decoupledfrom the outlet orifice into a chamber to be damped. The term chamberhere means the housing of a combustion chamber or the like whichencloses a volume with oscillations to be damped. Drawing in of hot gasinto the at least one resonator neck tube is thus reduced or moderatedby supply of the at least one duct with cooling fluid. The performanceof the Helmholtz resonator, i.e. how powerfully the resonator is able todamp, is in this way no longer impaired.

In this way, damping of the thermoacoustic oscillations may be achievedwith fewer such damping devices, whereby additional savings of purgingair may be made.

The resonator neck tubes leading into a duct may for example beconfigured wholly or partly in one piece with the duct, and the duct mayfor example be configured wholly or partly in one piece with a chamberwall. Chamber wall here means the housing of a combustion chamber or thelike in which a volume with oscillations to be damped is enclosed.

According to aspects of the invention, the duct is configured in such away that acoustic oscillations may be injected into the outlet orifice.This means that at least in one frequency band acoustic oscillationsimpinging on the outlet orifice propagate at least in part in the duct.The duct may be arranged on or in a gas turbine in such a way that atleast one frequency band of the acoustic oscillations of a fluid streamflowing through a burner plenum and a combustion chamber may propagateas far as the outlet orifice of the duct. The term acoustic oscillationsis used to denote the thermoacoustic pressure variations arising andbuilding up in gas turbines which may be characteristic of a gas turbineand may form particular preferential frequencies to be damped as afunction of the operating point. The thermoacoustic pressure variationsmay propagate in part as far as into the burner plenum and beyond andare here designated with the phrase “acoustic oscillations of a fluidflowing through a burner plenum and a combustion chamber”. The duct ofthe damping device according to the invention may for example lead withits at least one outlet orifice directly into the combustion chamber orinto the burner plenum. In particular, the duct is different from theburner plenum. The duct does not have to be acoustically transmissivefor all the frequencies building up inside the gas turbine. It issufficient for it to be acoustically transmissive in a suitablefrequency band and to be suitably tuned in this respect to the Helmholtzresonator.

Advantageous configurations of the invention are indicated in thefollowing description and the subclaims, the features of which may beapplied individually and in any desired combination.

In one advantageous configuration of the invention, at least one ductmay take the form of a purging air duct, with at least one inlet orificeand at least one outlet orifice, such that purging air may flow throughthe purging air duct.

In this configuration of the invention, the duct is supplied withpurging air which is passed through the duct. The purging air may forexample be compressor air. The amount of purging air which is consumedin the process may be selected to be significantly less than thatconsumed in the purging air-purged Helmholtz resonators according to theprior art. In addition, this purging air no longer impairs theperformance of the Helmholtz resonator.

It may also be considered advantageous if cooling fluid can flow aroundat least one duct of the damping device at least in places.

This configuration of the invention has the advantage that the coolingfluid, for example compressor air, continues to be available forcombustion. The duct may to this end be guided in places outside aninner combustion chamber housing through a compressor air stream, suchthat the air brushes past the duct. Irrespective thereof, purging aircould however also additionally flow through the duct to increase thecooling effect.

An advantageous configuration of the invention may be provided in thatthe duct is surrounded at least in places by the resonator housing.

This allows the damping device to have a compact structure. For example,the resonator housing may have an annular cross-section.

It may also be considered advantageous for the duct to extend at leastin places through the resonator housing and for the at least oneresonator neck tube leading into the duct to lead into the duct in theinterior of the resonator housing.

The start of the duct optionally provided with an inlet opening and theat least one outlet orifice of the duct may in this configuration of theinvention terminate flush with the resonator housing. The duct couldhowever also extend in another manner through the resonator housing. Forexample, the duct may project out of the resonator housing. Theresonator neck tubes may be configured in one piece with the ductjacketing, said tubes for example comprising orifices in the ductjacketing. The resonator neck tubes may however also be configuredotherwise, for example screwed into the duct, such that the dampingfrequency of the Helmholtz resonator may be easily modified byexchanging the resonator neck tubes. The duct jacketing may for thepurposes of the invention also be denoted duct wall.

Provision may moreover advantageously be made for at least one resonatorneck tube to be constructed by means of perforation of the ductjacketing.

This development of the invention has particularly low manufacturingcosts.

It may also be considered advantageous for the resonator housing to beof cylindrical construction and to surround a duct coaxially at least inplaces.

This symmetrical construction of the damping device may be arrangedparticularly simply on a gas turbine.

Provision may moreover advantageously be made for the height of thecylindrical resonator housing to correspond to 20-150% of the cylinderdiameter of the resonator housing.

The height of the cylindrical resonator housing may here correspondsubstantially to the height of the cuboidal resonators in the prior art.At the stated ratio of cylinder diameter and cylinder height,frequencies of over 1000 Hz arising in gas turbines with theconventional resonator heights may be damped, wherein the length of theresonator neck tubes leading into the coaxially surrounding duct ispredetermined within limits by the dimensions of the resonator housing.This configuration of the invention is suitable in particular fordamping tubular combustion chambers, in which high frequencythermoacoustic combustion oscillations may form.

The duct may advantageously be a cylindrical tube.

This configuration of the duct is particularly simple to produce or, asa standard component, has low manufacturing costs. The resonator necktubes leading into the duct may lead thereinto for example evenlydistributed over a portion of the tubes. They could however also forexample lead into the duct only on one side of the tubes along a pathextending in the longitudinal direction of the tubes.

Provision may advantageously be made for the area of the outlet orificeof a duct to correspond to one to two times the total cross-sectionalarea of the resonator neck tubes leading into the duct.

The acoustic transmittance of the duct is in this manner adaptedparticularly advantageously to the Helmholtz resonator.

It is additionally ensured that, on supply of the duct with purging air,it is possible particularly effectively with a small quantity of purgingair to prevent hot gas from being drawn into the purging air duct andthus into the at least one resonator neck tube.

In a further advantageous configuration of the invention, the resonatorhousing may be configured to lie with a housing wall of the resonatorhousing on a cold side of a chamber wall or to be configured in onepiece therewith, wherein the chamber wall encloses a volume withoscillations to be damped.

To cool the resonator housing wall lying on the chamber wall, coolingair bores set at an angle may be introduced into the resonator housingin such a way as to allow impact cooling of the hot gas-side housingwall.

In a further advantageous configuration of the invention, downstream ofthe at least one mouth of the resonator neck tubes leading into the ductthe duct may extend outside the resonator housing, such that the dampingdevice may be arranged with one end of the duct at a chamber wall,leaving a space between the resonator housing and the chamber wall,wherein the chamber wall encloses a volume with oscillations to bedamped.

This configuration has the advantage that the duct may be cooled bymeans of compressor air flowing past. In this respect, the duct may beflowed around by cooling fluid at least in places.

The configuration has the further advantage that the impact cooling ofthe resonator housing wall pointing in the direction of the hot side maybe far less significant. It could even be completely omitted. Due to thespacing, the resonator housing may also be sufficiently cooled by meansof compressor air flowing past, wherein the compressor air is moreoveravailable to the combustion process.

Advantageously, provision may further be made for the damping device tobe arrangeable detachably on the chamber wall.

The duct may for example comprise a thread in the region of the outletorifice, such that the duct may be screwed into an orifice in thechamber wall.

This allows simple exchange of the damping device.

To change the resonant frequency of the damping device, the resonatorhousing may be connected detachably to the duct for exchange withanother resonator housing.

It is a further object of the invention to provide a gas turbine with atleast one combustion chamber and at least one damping device of theabove-stated type, which allows particularly effective damping ofthermoacoustic oscillations.

This object is achieved according to the invention in a gas turbine ofthe above-stated type in that the damping device is configured asclaimed.

It may also be considered advantageous for the damping device to bearranged on a combustion chamber housing of the combustion chambersubstantially at the level of a combustion zone.

In this way, the damping device is arranged close to the acoustic sourceof the thermoacoustic oscillations. This leads to a further increase inthe damping effect.

According to one advantageous configuration of the invention, theresonator housing may annularly surround a combustion chamber housing ofthe combustion chamber.

Advantageously, in this configuration of the invention a plurality ofducts are provided which are for example arranged at regular distancesalong the circumference of the combustion chamber and support theannular resonator housing at a distance from the combustion chamber.

According to one advantageous configuration of the invention, theaverage cross-sectional area of the duct between outlet orifice andmouth region of the resonator neck tubes may correspond to two to tentimes the sum of the cross-sectional areas of the resonator neck tubeswhich connect the duct with the resonance volume.

In general, the duct will have a constant cross-section over thissection, such that this constant area may be used as a condition.

Due to this condition, the duct does not behave as a resonator neck ofthe Helmholtz resonator and additionally has dimensions that alloweffective cooling.

The criterion should be applied according to the configuration to atleast one of the Helmholtz resonators, which is connected fluidically tothe duct via the at least one resonator neck tube. It may however alsobe applied according to one exemplary embodiment to all the Helmholtzresonators which are connected fluidically with the duct via the atleast one resonator neck tube. In this case, the duct does not influencethe frequency range in any of the resonators.

According to one advantageous configuration of the invention, the ductmay be configured as a purging air duct with at least one inlet orificeother than the resonator neck tubes and at least one outlet orifice,such that at least one fraction of the cooling air flowing through thepurging air duct may pass into the at least one inlet orifice and intothe duct and pass through the duct with omission of the resonancevolume.

This configuration has already substantially been described furtherabove in other terms.

According to one advantageous configuration of the invention, the ductmay extend at least in places outside the resonator housing at leastupstream of the outlet orifice and downstream of the mouth of the atleast one resonator neck tube and be capable of being flowed around bycooling air at least in places in this region.

This configuration has already substantially been described furtherabove in other terms.

According to one advantageous configuration of the invention, thedamping device may be arranged outside a combustion chamber and leavinga space between the resonator housing and a combustion chamber wall,with one end of the duct comprising the at least one outlet orifice atthe combustion chamber wall, such that a compressor air stream flowingpast the combustion chamber may flow around the duct at least in places.

This configuration has already substantially been described furtherabove in other terms.

According to one advantageous configuration of the invention, thecross-section of the at least one inlet orifice is smaller than thecross-section of the purging air duct in the region of the inletorifice.

In this way, the quantity of purging air may be suitably limited.

According to one advantageous configuration of the invention, all theresonator neck tubes leading into the purging air duct may have asmaller cross-section than the duct.

According to one advantageous configuration of the invention, the ductmay be substantially closed apart from the at least one resonator necktube and the at least one outlet orifice.

The duct is thus cooled primarily by at least one duct portionarrangeable in the cooling air stream being flowed around. If anypurging air is passed through the tubes, this quantity may be reducedrelative to the prior art.

A further object of the invention is to provide a method for dampingthermoacoustic oscillations in which at least one Helmholtz resonatordamps the oscillations and in the process the oscillations to be dampedare injected into at least one resonator neck of the Helmholtzresonator, wherein the method allows particularly effective damping.

The object is achieved according to the invention in the case of such amethod in that the oscillations are firstly introduced into a duct and,with cooling of the transmission medium thereof, propagate thereinupstream and are injected upstream into the leading-in resonator neck ofthe Helmholtz resonator.

Purging of the resonator neck may thereby be dispensed with, soimproving the damping effect of the Helmholtz resonator.

Advantageously, the transmission medium may be cooled by means ofpurging air, such that the oscillations are firstly introduced into apurging air duct purged in the opposite direction from the propagationdirection thereof and injected upstream into the resonator neck of theHelmholtz resonator leading into the purging air duct.

The purging air may be compressor air.

According to a further advantageous configuration of the invention, thetransmission medium may be cooled by a cooling fluid flowing around theduct.

In this configuration of the invention, the duct may additionally alsobe purged with purging air to increase the cooling effect. Sufficientcooling of the transmission medium may however also be achievedexclusively by means of the duct being flowed around.

Further convenient configurations and advantages of the inventionconstitute the subject matter of the description of exemplaryembodiments of the invention with reference to the figures of thedrawings, wherein the same reference numerals refer to identicallyacting components.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

In the drawings

FIG. 1 shows a gas turbine according to the prior art,

FIG. 2 is a schematic representation of a first exemplary embodiment ofa damping device according to the invention in longitudinal section,

FIG. 3 shows the exemplary embodiment of FIG. 2 in plan view,

FIG. 4 is a schematic representation of a second exemplary embodiment ofthe damping device according to the invention in longitudinal section,

FIG. 5 is a schematic representation of a third exemplary embodiment ofthe damping device according to the invention in longitudinal section,and

FIG. 6 shows a portion of a combustion chamber according to theinvention with a damping device according to a fourth exemplaryembodiment in longitudinal section.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF INVENTION

FIG. 1 shows a sectional view of a gas turbine 1 according to the priorart in a schematically simplified representation. In its interior, thegas turbine 1 comprises a rotor 3 mounted so as to rotate about an axisof rotation 2 and having a shaft 4, said rotor also being known as aturbine wheel. The following succeed one another along the rotor 3: anintake housing 6, a compressor 8, a combustion system 9 with a number oftubular combustion chambers 10, which each comprise a burner arrangement11 and a housing 12, a turbine 14 and a waste gas housing 15.

The combustion system 9 communicates with a for example annular hot gasduct. A plurality of series-connected turbine stages there form theturbine 14. Each turbine stage is formed of rings of blades or vanes.When viewed in the direction of flow of a working medium, a row formedof guide vanes 17 follows a row of rotor blades 18 in the hot duct. Theguide vanes 17 are here fastened to an inner housing of a stator 19,whereas the rotor blades 18 of a row are mounted for example by means ofa turbine disk on the rotor 3. A generator (not shown) is for examplecoupled to the rotor 3.

During operation of the gas turbine, air is aspirated by the compressor8 through the intake housing 6 and compressed. The compressed airprovided at the turbine-side end of the compressor 8 is guided to thecombustion system 9 and there is mixed with a fuel in the region of theburner arrangement 11. The mixture is then combusted in the combustionsystem 9 with the assistance of the burner arrangement 11, forming aworking gas stream. From there the working gas stream flows along thehot gas duct past the guide vanes 17 and the rotor blades 18. At therotor blades 18 the working gas stream expands in a pulse-transmittingmanner, such that the rotor blades 18 drive the rotor 3 and the latterdrives the generator (not shown) coupled thereto.

FIG. 2 is a schematic representation of a first exemplary embodiment ofa damping device 22 according to the invention in longitudinal section.The damping device 22 comprises a Helmholtz resonator 23 and a duct inthe form of a purging air duct 24 with duct jacketing 25. The Helmholtzresonator 23 comprises a cylindrical resonator housing 27, wherein thecylindrical purging air duct 24 extends through the resonator housing 27and is surrounded coaxially by the resonator housing 27. The resonatorhousing 27 encloses the resonance volume 30 of the Helmholtz resonator.A plurality of cylindrical resonator neck tubes 28 extend through theduct jacketing 25 of the purging duct 24. The resonator neck tubes 28lead into the purging air duct 24 in the interior of the resonatorhousing 27. In this case the resonator neck tubes 28 are arranged suchthat they lead into the purging air duct 24 on the hot gas side—i.e.with their hot-gas-side output 33—downstream of an inlet orifice 34 ofthe purging air duct and upstream of the one outlet orifice 35 of thepurging air duct 24. The resonator housing 27 comprises a housing wall38, which is in one piece with a chamber wall 39. The chamber wall 39here encloses a volume with oscillations to be damped, which is enclosedby the environment 32 to be damped of the Helmholtz resonator.

The chamber wall 39 illustrated comprises a combustion chamber housing,wherein a hot working gas stream 40 flows in the combustion chamber. Thehot working gas stream 40 corresponds to a fluid stream flowing througha burner plenum and a combustion chamber and designated in thecombustion chamber portion as hot working gas stream 40. To cool thehousing wall 38, cooling ducts 41 may be introduced into the resonatorhousing 27. The thermoacoustic oscillations in the combustion chamberarising during combustion are injected into the Helmholtz resonator 23by the resonator neck tubes 28 and are damped therein. The purging airflowing in the purging air duct 24 in the direction 42 reliably preventshot gas from being drawn in. The velocity of the purging air in thepurging air duct 24 does not here influence the velocity of the injectedacoustic oscillations in the resonator neck tubes 28, such that theperformance of the Helmholtz resonator 23—i.e. the damping actionthereof—is unaffected by the velocity of the purging air exiting fromthe outlet orifice 35. In the illustrated exemplary embodiment of thedamping device 22, the hot-gas-side end of the purging air duct 24 isformed in one piece with the chamber wall 39 in the region of the outletorifice 35. The highly compact construction of the damping device 22 maybe further simplified in that the resonator neck tubes 28 are formed bymeans of perforations in the duct wall 25 of the purging air duct 24.This one-piece configuration of the resonator neck tubes with thepurging air duct 24 makes it possible further to reduce themanufacturing costs of the damping device 22. The height 45 of thecylindrical resonator housing 27 corresponds to 20-150% of the cylinderdiameter 46 of the resonator housing 27. So as to be able to adapt theresonator housing 27 or the resonance volume 30 enclosed thereby to afrequency band of oscillations to be damped, the resonator housing 27may be connected detachably to the purging air duct 24 in the region 48.

FIG. 3 shows the damping device 22 illustrated in FIG. 2 in plan view.The cylindrical resonator housing 27 comprises the inlet orifice 34 ofthe purging air duct 24 at its top. The profile of the duct jacketing 25of the purging air duct is indicated with broken lines.

FIG. 4 shows a second exemplary embodiment of a damping device 50according to the invention. This has a smaller cross-section of theoutlet orifice 52 of the purging air duct 53 than the exemplaryembodiment shown in FIG. 2. The cross-sectional area of the outletorifice 52 of the purging air duct here corresponds to 1 to 2 times thetotal cross-sectional area of the resonator neck tubes 28 leading intothe purging air duct 53. This makes it possible reliably to prevent hotair from being drawn in while purging air consumption is kept low.

FIG. 5 shows a third exemplary embodiment of a damping device 56according to the invention with a Helmholtz resonator 58 and a duct 60.Unlike in the first and second exemplary embodiments, downstream of theat least one mouth of the resonator neck tubes 28 leading into thepurging air duct 60 the duct 60 extends outside the resonator housing27. The damping device 56 is arranged with one end 62 of the duct 60 ata chamber wall 39, leaving a space between the resonator housing 27 andthe chamber wall 39, wherein the chamber wall 39 encloses a volume withoscillations to be damped. In this way, the Helmholtz resonator may becooled by compressor air flowing for example in direction 64. Thecooling ducts 41 additionally arranged in the resonator housing 27 mayin this case also be omitted. The damping device 56 may be fasteneddetachably to the chamber wall 39, for example by means of a threadformed on the duct 60 in the region of the end 62.

FIG. 6 shows a longitudinal section through a portion of a gas turbinecombustion chamber 65 with a damping device 66 according to theinvention corresponding to a fourth exemplary embodiment.

The figure is a simplified, schematic diagram of the combustion chamber.The gas turbine combustion chamber 65 comprises a rotationallysymmetrical combustion chamber housing 68, at the upstream end of whicha pilot burner 70 and two main burners 71, 72 are arranged. The dampingdevice 66 is arranged on the combustion chamber 65 at the level of acombustion zone 74. The resonator housing 76 of the damping device 66extends annularly around the combustion chamber housing 68, wherein aplurality of ducts 77 a, 77 b support the resonator housing 76.Compressor air flows around the ducts 77 a, 77 b, which are thussupplied with a cooling fluid.

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 28. A damping device for a gas turbine comprising: atleast one Helmholtz resonator and at least one duct, wherein theHelmholtz resonator comprises a resonator housing and at least oneresonator neck tube, and the resonator housing encloses a resonancevolume of the Helmholtz resonator into which acoustic oscillations maybe injected by the resonator neck tube, and wherein the duct has a ductjacketing and at least one outlet orifice, wherein acoustic oscillationsof a fluid stream flowing through a burner plenum and a combustionchamber may be injected into the outlet orifice and wherein the duct maybe supplied with a cooling fluid, wherein the at least one resonatorneck tube leads into such a duct on the hot gas side upstream of the atleast one outlet orifice, wherein the duct is surrounded at least inplaces by the resonator housing and the at least one resonator neck tubeleading into the duct leads into the duct in the interior of theresonator housing, wherein at least one duct takes the form of a purgingair duct with at least one inlet orifice other than the resonator necktubes and at least one outlet orifice, such that the cooling air flowingthrough the purging air duct may pass into the at least one inletorifice and into the duct and pass through the duct with omission of theresonance volume, wherein the resonator housing is of cylindricalconstruction and surrounds a duct coaxially at least in places, whereinthe height of the cylindrical resonator housing corresponds to 20-150%of the cylinder diameter of the resonator housing.
 29. The dampingdevice for a gas turbine as claimed in claim 28, wherein the resonatorhousing is configured to lie with a housing wall of the resonatorhousing on a cold side of a chamber wall or to be configured in onepiece therewith, wherein the chamber wall encloses a volume withoscillations to be damped.
 30. A damping device for a gas turbinecomprising: at least one Helmholtz resonator and at least one duct,wherein the Helmholtz resonator comprises a resonator housing and atleast one resonator neck tube, and the resonator housing encloses aresonance volume of the Helmholtz resonator into which acousticoscillations may be injected by the resonator neck tube, and wherein theduct has a duct jacketing and at least one outlet orifice, whereinacoustic oscillations of a fluid stream flowing through a burner plenumand a combustion chamber may be injected into the outlet orifice, andwherein the duct may be supplied with a cooling fluid, wherein the atleast one resonator neck tube leads into such a duct on the hot gas sideupstream of the at least one outlet orifice, wherein the duct issurrounded at least in places by the resonator housing and the at leastone resonator neck tube leading into the duct leads into the duct in theinterior of the resonator housing, wherein the damping device isarranged outside a combustion chamber and leaves a space between theresonator housing and a combustion chamber wall, with one end of theduct comprising the at least one outlet orifice at the combustionchamber wall, such that a compressor air stream flowing past thecombustion chamber may flow around the duct at least in places.
 31. Thedamping device as claimed in claim 30, wherein at least one duct isconfigured as a purging air duct with at least one inlet orifice otherthan the resonator neck tubes and at least one outlet orifice, such thatat least one fraction of the cooling air flowing through the purging airduct may pass into the at least one inlet orifice and into the duct andpass through the duct, with omission of the resonance volume, such thatpurging air may flow through the purging air duct.
 32. The dampingdevice as claimed in claim 30, wherein the duct is substantially closedapart from the at least one resonator neck tube and the at least oneoutlet orifice.
 33. The damping device for a gas turbine as claimed inclaim 30, wherein at least one resonator neck tube is formed byperforations in the duct jacketing of a duct.
 34. The damping device fora gas turbine as claimed in claim 30, wherein the duct is a cylindricaltube.
 35. The damping device for a gas turbine as claimed in claim 30,wherein the area of the outlet orifice of a duct corresponds to 1 to 2times the total cross-sectional area of the resonator neck tubes leadinginto the duct.
 36. The damping device for a gas turbine as claimed inclaim 30, wherein the damping device is adapted to be arrangeddetachably on the chamber wall.
 37. The damping device for a gas turbineas claimed in claim 30, wherein the resonator housing is connecteddetachably to the duct.
 38. The damping device as claimed in claim 30,wherein the average cross-sectional area of the duct between outletorifice and mouth region of the resonator neck tubes corresponds to twoto ten times the sum of the cross-sectional areas of the resonator necktubes which connect the duct with the resonance volume.
 39. The dampingdevice as claimed in claim 30, wherein the cross-section of the at leastone inlet orifice is smaller than the cross-section of the purging airduct in the region of the inlet orifice.
 40. The damping device asclaimed in claim 30, wherein all the resonator neck tubes leading intothe purging air duct may have a smaller cross-section than the duct. 41.A gas turbine, comprising at least one combustion chamber, and at leastone damping device, wherein the damping device is configured as claimedin claim
 30. 42. The gas turbine as claimed in claim 41, wherein thedamping device is arranged on a combustion chamber housing of thecombustion chamber substantially at the level of a combustion zone. 43.The gas turbine as claimed in claim 41, wherein the resonator housingannularly surrounds a combustion chamber housing of the combustionchamber.
 44. A gas turbine, comprising at least one combustion chamber,and at least one damping device, wherein the damping device isconfigured as claimed in claim
 28. 45. The gas turbine as claimed inclaim 44, wherein the damping device is arranged on a combustion chamberhousing of the combustion chamber substantially at the level of acombustion zone.
 46. The gas turbine as claimed in claim 44, wherein theresonator housing annularly surrounds a combustion chamber housing ofthe combustion chamber.